But for the custom number format to work, the value will have to be entered as a
number (not text). And that means that the 16th digit would be changed to a 0
again.

Kassie wrote:

Or create a custom format to show it as 1234 1234 1234 1234. That way, it is
also esier to read the card numbers
Custom format as 0000 0000 0000 0000

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Kassie

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"gls858" wrote:

dreamer wrote:
While creating a sheet with credit card numbers I noticed that upon placing
the 16th digit and any after that , the numbers are zeros There are no
fomats in those cells.
Can anyone help?

Assuming you aren't going to be doing math on these values format the
cell as text.

gls858


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